As Alessandra and Clyde part ways, she is now left under the care of the Duhsh Elves while he continues on the path of vengeance. The story of what happened in the seven year absence until their next fated meeting remained unknown, until now.
[The Kingdom of Luminara - Ceremonial Room. Enter Malaika before an audience with King Draluth. He is an angelic being that has sought refuge within the Kingdom for the past two centuries. Adorned in Caelestrial relics, his dark skin in stark contrast with his light transparent silk robe draped over his right shoulder. He has been summoned unexpectedly but this draws no initial suspicion, he and King Draluth have had a close friendship for many decades]
Malaika: [Crosses his right arm across his chest in respect to King Draluth, his kind are forbidden from prostrating to anyone other than Her Divine Grace Shyilia] You asked for me Aran?
{King}
King Draluth: Ah yes yes! do come closer dear friend. You and I have looked out for each other for [pauses] well! as long as I can remember really. I've done you a great many of favours and you, a great many in return.
[King Draluth's eyes shift across the room, back at Malaika and over his very own shoulder, his slender fingers drum repeatedly on his knees as he bounces his leg repetitively. He is clearly on edge]
Malaika: You are family to me Aran. These are not favours, they are you and I looking out for one another.
King Draluth:[smiling at Malaika] Then let me ask the first favour from you. I need your help. You see, Caelestra no longer serves with Luminara's best interests at heart. I have long seen it, long experienced it but only now have I accepted this reality. I seek to distance our kingdom from Caelestra, the senate has dictated our people, our way of life for far too long, with little consideration for what is the cornerstone of our success - our diversity.
Malaika: Aran, are you sure you have thought this through? the support of the senate is what has allowed the diversity you speak of to flourish, it is what has allowed somebody of your background become a great leader.
[King Draluth's face dropped, deeply offended by what Malaika's implying]
King Draluth: Of my background?
Malaika: You know what I meant Aran. I trust you with my life but Avrulux will remain skeptical of the Night Elf's intentions for many years to come, you are their hope to change this.
King Draluth: Gulliver expressed similar oppositions [he sighs], I really thought that of the two of you, you'd be the one to reason with. Luminara will be dissolved from the senate effective immediately, we will no longer be subservient to absent and foreign powers. The Night Elves shall be the ones who dictate the future of this Great Kingdom, nothing will change for those who acknowledge this, we shall live better than we ever have!
Malaika: 'Mchimba kisima hungia mwenyew' - He who digs a pit, will fall into it himself.
[Enter a man donned in great armour and a golden beaked mask from behind the ceremonial throne. His appearance is masked, two large jet black wings rest on either side of him as he rests his hands atop the hilt of a sword]
Malaika: Gulliver?!
King Draluth: Raven. The Champion of Luminara, my weapon. Should it come to that.
Malaika: This is folly. Our kind are protectors of the peace, not weapons for you to use at your disposal.
[King Draluth nods his head in Raven's direction. Raven acknowledges the command, helpless to resist. Raising his sword, he slowly approaches Malaika, who, on closer inspection notices that the mask has been welded shut onto his very skin. Raven's wings spread afar, littering the floor in blackened feathers. With a swift strike, the sword sweeps through the air and down to Malaika, who catches the sharpened blade between the two palms of his hand as his being glows a brightly, Raven's, a darkened purple. The collision shakes the very castle's foundations as stain glass windows illustrating the tale of coexistence shatter, signifying a war on the brink of the horizon]
King Draluth: This is my kingdom. I have ruled these lands long before your arrival and will continue long after your departure
Malaika: Zaos will not sit back and watch his father become the very thing we've all worked so hard to eliminate from these lands!
King Draluth: Zaos is no fool. He will learn the truth from The Constructor just as I have.
[Malaika continues to block all of Raven's rapid strikes as he attempts to subdue him without badly injuring him]
Malaika: You would throw away all this on the words of a man you know nothing of?!
King Draluth: You 'angels' once served the Avruluxian gods did you not?
[King Draluth slowly sits up from his ceremonial throne, revealing yet another golden mask within his grasp]
Now you shall serve a god once more.
[Exeunt]
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(Gulliver 'Raven' Blackthorn - Thought to be a caelestrial being that sought refuge within Luminara alongside his companion Malaika. He quickly gained the trust of King Draluth and has since become the first victim of the Luminarian War that is on the horizon)
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(Malaika - A Caelestrial being of supreme knowledge, power and wisdom. He is the mentor of the Prince of Luminara and his fiancée. He has never claimed a living being's life in all his existence)
